LyX 2.4.0 (IM policy.xml ban on eps/pdf conversions)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 06:13:10PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 10:36:57AM +0000, José Abílio Matos wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 2 February 2022 21.45.40 WET Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > > Jose, could I ask for pythonic help?
> > > We would need a routine in configure.py which check whether to remove eps->png
> > > conversion in case IM bans those conversions. That could be done this way by
> > > checking return status of the conversion. In bash that would be something
> > > like this:
> > > 
> > > echo '%!PS' > /tmp/.lyx_configure_test.eps
> > > convert  /tmp/.lyx_configure_test.eps /tmp/.lyx_configure_test.png
> > > if ! [ $? == 0 ] ; then
> > >   # remove eps->png conversion from configure settings, i.e. set \converter
> > > "eps" "png" "" "" fi
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Completely different way would be mimicking what IM internally does with GS
> > > when converting eps->png. I already checked little bit and unfortunately it
> > > won't be oneliner if we want to get resolution right. But probably doable
> > > with additional script of our own. Pavel
> > 
> > I will look into this in the weekend.
> > 
> > <Thinking aloud>
> > At some point I will want to overhaul the configure.py script.
> > The purpose is, among others, to simplify the code required to do this kind of tests.
> > 
> > The test above is relatively easy to do.
> > Something that I should, probably, take into account is the order of the tests.
> > 
> > In the sense that if we different \convert lines we probably retain the last...
> > </Thinking aloud>
> 
> ping :)

ping :)

> p